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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the beginning of the tale about the Stone Boy, a young girl had how many brothers?
(a) Two.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

2. What animal was most likely to appear in a vision that a medicine man had?
(a) An eagle.
(b) A buffalo.
(c) A bear.
(d) A deer.

3. What did Lame Deer know he needed to do after he saw his grandfather with blood dripping from his chest?
(a) He needed to seek revenge on the white man.
(b) He needed to tell his family about the horrible truths of the white man.
(c) He needed to be a medicine man.
(d) He needed to take his grandfather's name.

4. In the first part of the book, Lame Deer describes a white soldier bellied down in a gully watching the women using his green frog skin to fire up what?
(a) The bonfire for a dance.
(b) The latern for the tipi.
(c) Buffalo chips.
(d) Fire wood.

5. At the beginning of Chapter 13, Lame Deer mentions that one of his tribe's troubles is that they can't do what?
(a) Lie.
(b) Steal.
(c) Curse.
(d) Cheat.

6. When Lame Deer was asked to pick a trade when he was in the reformatory, what did he choose?
(a) Fence builder.
(b) Mechanic.
(c) Rodeo clown.
(d) Sign painting.

7. Lame Deer talks about an old white man that invited him and his friend into his cellar to drink and play cards. Lame Deer said that this bootlegger was so drunk he couldn't do what?
(a) Walk a zig-zagged line.
(b) Stand up to go to the bathroom.
(c) Breath any fresh air.
(d) Find his nose with both hands.

8. Lame Deer states in the beginning of Chapter 9 that if a conjurer or witch doctor is bad, he will do what?
(a) Kill an animal and blame it on someone else.
(b) Put a sickness into you that only he can cure and then cure you for a price.
(c) Put an evil spirit into a person.
(d) Cause hatred in the tribe.

9. Korczak Ziolkowski told Lame Deer and Richard Erdoes that his Crazy Horse monument would dwarf what?
(a) The white man.
(b) The pyramids of Egypt.
(c) Mount Rushmore.
(d) The tallest buildings in New York.

10. What does Lame Deer say is on the money, but is being killed by the money?
(a) The open land.
(b) The President of the United States.
(c) The bald eagle.
(d) The soldiers.

11. How many puffs did the Sioux take on the peace pipe?
(a) Four.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Five.

12. In the tale of the Stone Boy, how many days was the young girl pregnant before she gave birth to a boy?
(a) Four hundred.
(b) Four.
(c) Thirty.
(d) Three thousand.

13. What does the word hanhepiwi mean?
(a) Moon.
(b) Sun.
(c) Heavens.
(d) Stars.

14. What was the word that the Sioux tribe used for the stone god?
(a) Wagmuha.
(b) Mosaken.
(c) Tunkan.
(d) Cheyne.

15. In the process of building a sweat house, how many white willow trees needed to be cut?
(a) Five.
(b) Sixteen.
(c) Nineteen.
(d) Twelve.

Short Answer Questions

1. One way for young folks to get together was for the girl to stand outside her family's tipi with what?

2. In the beginning of Chapter 13, Lame Deer states that the first thing the white man usually asks about is what?

3. According to Lame Deer, what was the name of the greatest of all the Sioux?

4. What animal does Lame Deer mention in Chapter 7 that is much like an Indian because it's unchangeable?

5. What does the word inipi mean?

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